Assignment: Evidence Based Practice Project
Assignment: Evidence Based Practice Project
Evidence-based practice is defined as the deliberate integration of best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values and needs in the delivery of high-quality, low-cost care.
Nurses can use a PICO format to better articulate their clinical questions and search for answers to those questions. This format can help nurses understand how to find answers to their clinical questions and search for answers to those questions.
Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements or recommendations that serve as a link between research and practice.
The IOWA model can help practitioners. They serve as a link between practice and research. Module 4: Finding Evidence for Evidence-Based Practice Project
Magnet hospitals (or those that have achieved it) incorporate evidence-based practice into nursing care. THE IOWA MODEL MUST BE USED. A total of four resources must be used. Module 4: Finding Evidence for Evidence-Based Practice Project
Overview
This assignment will allow you to design an evidence-based practice project that includes the creation of a PICO question and adheres
to the first steps of the Iowa Model. Your findings will be presented in an APA formatted paper.
Making a Submission for your Evidence-Based Practice Project: Finding the Evidence Assignment
Save this document as a Word document to your desktop.
Review the assignment instructions and grading rubric by opening the document from your desktop.
Make a new Word document for your paper.
Return to Blackboard and upload your paper and the nursing research article that your coach approved in Module 2 to the assignment submission link in Module Four.
Please keep in mind that if you fail to upload your nursing quantitative research article, your paper will receive a 5 point penalty.
Finding the Evidence Assignment Instructions for Completing Your Evidence-Based Practice Project
Step one: Identify a nursing clinical practice question to investigate using the topic you chose for Module 2 Searching for a Quantitative Nursing article.
Step two: Finish the Module Four readings. Using the readings from Module Four, create a PICO chart for your nursing clinical practice question.
Step three: Use Academic Search Complete, CINHAL, Pubmed, Google Scholar, or any other database that contains nursing research articles to find a nursing quantitative research article (or two) that relates to your PICO question.
Please keep in mind that you may be able to use the article you submitted in Module Two to fulfill this requirement.
The article you are looking for must meet the following requirements:
It must be based on the attached topic list.
It must be from a nursing research journal or written by a nurse.
It cannot be older than five years from the current publication year.
It must contain implications and/or interventions relevant to nursing practice.
It may not be a qualitative article, systematic review, meta-synthesis, meta-analysis, meta-summary, integrative review, or a quality improvement study. Grove, Gray, and Burns (2015), pp. 22-24, provide more information on how to identify these types of articles.
It could be a clinical information or “how-to” article.
Step four: Post any questions you have about your PICO question formatting or the nursing quantitative research article you found to the Q & A discussion board for feedback from your peers.
Self-check: if you choose the incorrect type of nursing quantitative research article for your paper (the one you will use to write paragraphs 2, 3, 4, and 5), your best grade will be a 55. Yikes!!! Please double-check that you have chosen a nursing quantitative research article that meets the criteria for this assignment and seek assistance if you are unsure. Please keep in mind that you may be able to use the article you submitted in Module Two to fulfill this requirement.
Fiveth step: Obtaining More Evidence (Do the research) Find a resource that was published within the last 5 years and provides you with at least two facts (for example, costs, morbidity, mortality, safety, or other related statistics) that explain why your clinical problem is important (provide statistics). (The internet is an excellent source of this information… Just remember to cite this information and include it on your reference page).
Find a clinical practice guideline at http://www.guideline.gov/browse/by-topic.aspx that relates to your question. It must have information that relates to the role of the nurse. Guideline is the most recent version or published within the past five years. (It is true that guidelines are not always updated within 5 years so you will need to discuss this.)
Find a clinical “how-to” article, a nursing professional practice website, a systematic literature review, a meta-analysis, or a manufacturer’s website published within the past 5 years that relates to your practice question.
Hint: Did you notice that you will be finding a total of four different sources of information for your PICO question? To re-cap, these four sources are:
Statistics you are reporting in paragraph one.
Nursing quantitative research article for paragraphs 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Clinical Practice Guideline (paragraph 6)
A source of your choosing (paragraph 7)
Step Six: Write up your findings in APA format and submit them to Blackboard by the due date and time listed in your syllabus. Here’s how to write up your findings:Start with a UTA CONHI approved cover page.
Paragraph #1: This is your opening paragraph. Start with an introduction statement. What is your PICO question? Describe why was it important (share the dollars, morbidity / mortality, statistics, safety stats you found with citation)?
Paragraph #2: What did your nursing quantitative research article add to your knowledge on this topic? Share at least three facts (two must be from the Results or Discussion sections) that you found within the article in this paragraph that is relevant to your PICO question and your practice as a nurse.
Paragraph #3: Define reliability as it is used in your textbook. Critique the reliability of the nursing quantitative research article you used. Go back to what you learned in your article critique about measurement methods and data collection in Module 3 to make sure you are being thorough in your assessment. Use Table 10-1 in your textbook to identify the type of reliability for your measurement instrument / tool. Be specific, so that your instructor, if reading the article, can find them too.
Paragraph #4: Define validity as it is used in your textbook. Critique the validity of the nursing quantitative research article you used. Go back to what you learned in your article critique about measurement methods, and data collection to make sure you are being thorough in your assessment. Use Table 10-1 in your textbook to identify the type of validity for your measurement instrument / tool. Be specific, so that your instructor, if reading the article, can find them too.
Paragraph #5: Using the skills you have learned in your critique of a research article, describe two strengths or two weaknesses (or one strength and one weakness) that you found as you read this article. Go back to what you learned in your article critique about sampling methods, measurement methods (ex. questionnaires), and data collection (how did they collect the data to make sure you are being thorough in your assessment. Be specific, so that your instructor, if reading the article, can find them too. Do not re-state the limitations provided by the authors of your study unless they have to do with the study’s sampling, measurement methods, or data collection. Do not discuss the descriptive or inferential statistics used by the authors as a strength or weakness of the study, as this is not related to with the study’s sampling, measurement methods, or data collection.
Paragraph #6: What is the name and website of the clinical practice guideline that you found? Share at least three facts that you found within the guideline that is relevant to the PICO question and your practice as a BSN nurse and cite the guideline appropriately.
Paragraph #7: Identify the fourth resource you found (clinical “how-to” article, a nursing professional practice website, a systematic literature review, a meta-analysis, or a manufacturer’s website) that relates to your practice question. Share at least three facts that you found within this source that is relevant to the PICO question and your practice as a nurse, and cite appropriately.
Paragraph #8 (and #9 if needed): re-state your PICO question and briefly summarize what you have learned through your search. What would you recommend, if anything, as a change in practice for nurses? Why? Remember, this is your closing paragraph(s).
Note to students about writing up your findings:
This is a formal APA paper. Look at the Rubric for more APA information for this paper.
Don’t forget to use your APA resources that were reviewed in Module Two!
Don’t forget to use the Module Four discussion board for additional questions about your paper.
Turn your paper (as a word document) and article (in pdf format) that you used for paragraphs 2, 3, 4, & 5 in to the assignment submission link in Module Four at the due date and time listed in your syllabus.
Possible points for this assignment: 100 points
APA Style and Formatting
APA formatting for this paper will follow the guidelines for general formatting, in text-citations, margins, headings (if desired) alignment and line spacing, font type and size, paragraph indentation, page headers, and the reference page as explained in the 2nd edition of APA the Easy Way or the 6th edition of the APA Manual.
Helpful Hints:
Do not use 1st person in a formal paper.
Do not use direct quotes, instead summarize and paraphrase what you are reading. Multiple quotes (more than two) will receive multiple point deductions.
Please do not forget to use the approved CONHI cover page.
The first time an APA error is discovered, it will be pointed out to you and a point will be deducted from your paper. Maximum number of points deducted for APA errors: 15 points
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.